1. Who flipped the switch that armed the plutonium bomb for testing in July of 1945?
(a) Kenneth Bainbridge.
(b) Hans Bethe.
(c) Robert Serber.
(d) Alexander Feklisov.

2. How old was Robert Oppenheimer when he first voted in a presidential election?
(a) 26.
(b) 32.
(c) 41.
(d) 36.

3. What mailing address did Dorothy McKibben give to the new scientists arriving in Santa Fe for the bomb project?
(a) P.O. Box 1663, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(b) P.O. Box 0, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(c) P.O. Box 313, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(d) P.O. Box 212, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

4. Where had Knut Haukelid been fighting the Germans in a resistance movement when he was met by British officers in "International Gangster School"?
(a) Norway.
(b) Austria.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

5. That former partner did Otto Hahn write first when he first discovered that uranium atoms could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?
(a) Robert Oppenheimer.
(b) Lise Meitner.
(c) Lewis Strauss.
(d) Klaus Fuchs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Haukelid injure himself during a training exercise before the special mission he was selected for, according to the author in "International Gangster School"?

2. Prior to the development of the atomic bomb, where did the largest man-made explosion in history occur?

3. Whose idea was it initially for the Americans to kidnap Werner Heisenberg?

4. How old was Igor Kurchatov when he was put in charge of building a Soviet atomic weapon?

5. When did Robert Oppenheimer abandon his date in a car, according to the author in "Skinny Superhero"?

(see the answer key)

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